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Happy Halloween : Our "Artsy Craftsy" Cat Pumpkin for 2006 : Cats in Art

Happy Halloween
This is our "Artsy Craftsy" Cat Pumpkin for 2006

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2006.
Cats are a beloved theme in the arts.
Take a look at the Britannica's special article on
"Cats in the Arts"
and see this comprehensive site on
Cats in Art

Amateur Illustrator : Community of Illustrators

via LawPundit,
digg
and TechCrunch
we are pleased by a new social networking site at
AmateurIllustrator.com
giving amateur illustrators the opportunity to share their art.

Definitely a coming "in" thing.

Photography Cambridge : Photos Canon EOS 5D

Via digg
some truly breathtaking photos of Cambridge by
Sean McHugh
using a
Canon EOS 5D digital SLR.

Kaz Maslanka and Mathematical Poetry

Kaz Maslanka has a most "picturesque" blog titled Mathematical Poetry dealing with "artistic expression created by performing mathematical operations on words or images as if they were numbers".

The results are - art.

Take a look.

Johann Dieter Wassmann Box Art and Modern Art

The Wassmann Foundation features the art of Johann Dieter Wassmann, whose "box art" represents an interesting step in the direction of "modern art".

World's Most Expensive Paintings

The World's Most Expensive Painting is...
a Picasso.
See here and here.
Infoplease has a list of the 10 Most Expensive Paintings of all time.

Art of Science Competition / Gallery

Spectacular graphics from the Art of Science Competition at Princeton University, 2005 Online Exhibition.
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Flickr: Photos from myrddrr

By chance, I came across some absolutely excellent photos from Myrddrr at Flickr: Photos from myrddrr
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Will Blogs Determine the Price of Art ?

Classical Values tells us that blogs may be taking over art soon if this possible Instalanche result is any guide.

Laputan Logic

Laputan Logic descibes itself as
"Fanciful. Preposterous. Absurd."

Gulliver's Travels speaks of a "Voyage to Laputa" which gives the name Laputan Logic its name.

Laputan Logic has great graphics.

Paint.Net for Free

The Tablet PCs Weblog has a January 5, 2005 posting by Marc Orchant entitled "Have you tried Paint.Net", writing:

"Paint.Net is a free painting and image manipulation program developed at Washington State University to provide a modern replacement for the Paint utility bundled with Windows. It’s quite a slick piece of work and well worth the download, especially if you already have the .Net framework installed on your PC. It works quite nicely on the Tablet PC and an imminent update (promised for later this month) will add a few important features including a Magic Wand tool for selecting regions with the same color in an image."

It is definitely worth a look as an alternative to MS Paint.

Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art

Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art

We ran across this website by chance.

The Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art is a tremendous "pay to buy" collection of art films and art videos - all titles are available for sale - but the site also offers free viewing of 450 complete films on-line. Available by art period are:

Early Cultures
First Civilisations
Africa
Pre-Columbian America
Romanesque and Gothic
Renaissance and Mannerism
Northern Renaissance
Rembrandt
Baroque and Rococo
Neo-classicists and Romantics
The Victorians
Impressionists and Post Impressionists
Art Nouveau
Expressionism
Cubism and Futurism
Into Abstraction
The Bauhaus and De Stijl
Dada and Surrealism
Modern Masters
Modern and Contemporary Sculptors
Contemporary Painters
New Directions - New Dimensions
Modern Architecture and Design

Unfortunately, surely in order to urge the viewer to buy the original quality video or film, online quality is only top at "100%" - a very small screeb size (though the films and videos are also viewable at e.g. 300% or larger screen size). Pull the right lower edge of the RealPlayer display to play with size.

Still, it is terrific stuff, e.g. take a look at Tassili N'Ajjer - Prehistoric Rock Paintings of the Sahara.

Crossposted to LawPundit.

Modulator's Menagerie

Modulator's Menagerie

The Modulator has a "Friday Ark" posting (a play on Noah's Ark) in which he states:

"I'll post links to sites that have Friday (or shortly thereafter) photos of their chosen animals as I see them (no photoshops and no humans).

Leave a comment or trackback to this post and I'll add yours to the list. If there is interest I'll keep this as a weekly feature."

We add here an everyday photo of our Siamese cat Lucas, who is named after Luca Signorreli (also known as Luca da Cortona, or Cortene), a Renaissance painter who we rank among the first truly naturalist painters and who has been called "the first to illustrate our own house of life". Bernard Berenson (see also here and here and here) called him the "grandest illustrator of modern times". We have a copy in oil of Signorelli's Portrait of a Man, which we regard to be art's best male comparable portrait to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa. (Portrait of a Man is found in original in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany and the Mona Lisa of course is in the Louvre in Paris, France).

We think that there is no doubt that man evolved from primate apes, but the interesting question is what preceded them? We think it is cats - and this may account for the special relationship between the felines and humanity, a close tie recognized as far back as the Ancient Pharaonic culture in Egypt and beyond. The cats are reflections of ourselves and to our knowledge are the only other animal to turn their backs on humans and pout when offended.

Luca Signorelli II

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Crossposted to LawPundit.

Lists of Best of the Bests : Books Movies Music

Lists of Best of the Bests : Books Movies Music

Lists of Bests has links
to best of best lists
for books, movies and music.